DAY, TOM AND MARY. THANK YOU, JOHN. EMPOWER, EDUCATE AND INVEST. THAT WILL BE THE MISSION OF A NEWCOMER TO JACKSONVILLE'S WEST SIDE. THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ON BLANDING BOULEVARD IS SCHEDULED TO BE COMPLETED THIS SUMMER. FOUNDERS SAY IT WILL PROVIDE FAMILY PLANNING AND HEALTH SERVICES TO THE 170,000 WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON THE WEST SIDE. AS CHANNEL 4 ADRIENNE MOORE SHOWS US, IT'S A COMMUNITY TOOL THAT MANY FEEL IS LONG OVERDO. WITH A 25,000-DOLLAR CHECK FROM A LOCAL DONOR IN HAND, THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY GATHERS AT FAITH TEMPLE ASSEMBLY OF GOD TO JUMP-START A PROJECT PASTOR TRAVINO SAYS WILL HELP TRANSFORM THE AREA. WOMEN NEED SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND THEY ARE HAVING TO FACE AND MAKE BIG CHOICES WITHOUT ANY KIND OF RESOURCE, ANY KIND OF HELP. IT'S DESPERATELY NEEDED. THIS VACANT BUILDING ON BLANDING BOULEVARD WILL SOON GET A MUCH-NEEDED FACELIFT AND BECOME THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER. FIRST OF ITS KIND FACILITY ON THE WEST SIDE AIM AT HELPING WOMEN, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THRIVE. WE DEAL WITH GIRLS WITH UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES AND THEN WE ARE A FULL MEDICAL FACILITY AND ONCE THE GIRL -- WE DETERMINE SHE IS PREGNANT, WE TRY TO ALLOW THEM TO SEE A SONOGRAM. SONOGRAMS ARE IMPORTANT, IF A GIRL CEASE A SONOGRAM, WE HAVE A 85% OF HER KEEPING THE BEAN. THE CENTER WILL PROVIDE COUNSELING, CLASSES, OTHER MEDICAL NEEDS IN WHAT FOUNDERS SAY IS A SAFE AND LOVING ENVIRONMENT. RIGHT NOW, WOMEN ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO THIS KIND OF CARE ON THE NORTH SIDE, SOUTH SIDE OR NASSAU COUNTY. OUT OF THE WAY, INCONVENIENCE MANY JUST CAN'T MANAGE. THE HEART OF THE MINUTE SPHRI MINISTRY IS BE AVAILABLE, BE A RESOURCE TO THESE WOMEN. IN ADDITION TO THIS, THERE ARE PLANS IN THE WORKS TO EXPAND AND OPEN UP ANOTHER FACILITY ON THE WEST SIDE AND ALSO ANOTHER FACILITY IN NASSAU COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR. WITH THE CALENDAR PACKED WITH WORK AHEAD, ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO HAVE A HAPPY AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. PROBABLY IN THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS, WE WILL BE OPEN AND IT'S GOING TO BE COMMUNITY PROJECT WHERE WE WILL HAVE A FULL-TIME DIRECTOR, A CLIENT SERVICE DIRECTOR AND EVERYBODY ELSE WILL BE VOLUNTEERS.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A vision to create a center to help Westside women and their families is much closer to reality after an anonymous donor gave $25,000 to the cause.

Faith Temple Assembly of God is hoping to open the Women's Resource Center in an overhauled Branding Boulevard building by summer. Its primary mission will be to "empower, educate and invest" in pregnant women and provide an alternative to abortion.

Founders say it aims at providing the 170,000 women, children and men on the Westside with family planning and health services, something many in the community feel is long overdue.

“Women need something like this," Trevino said. "They’re having to face and make big choices and big decisions without any kind of resource, without any kind of help. It’s desperately needed."

"We deal with girls with unplanned pregnancies," said Skip Keeling, president of Women’s Resource Center. "Then we are a full medical facility, and once the girl - when we do determine that she is pregnant, we try to allow them to see a sonogram. Sonograms are important because if a girl sees a sonogram we have an 85 percent chance of her keeping the baby."

The center will also provide counseling, classes and other medical needs in what founders said will be a safe and loving environment. They say women currently only have access to this kind of care on the Northside, Southside or in Nassau County.

"The heart of this ministry is to be available," Trevino said. "Be a resource to these woman at any moment."

Organizers have plans to open a second location on the Westside and then expand to Nassau County within the next year. It's all to further the goal of creating a happy, healthy community for generations to come.

"Probably within the next four months we’re going to be open, and it’s going to be a community project where we’ll have a full-time director, a client services director and everybody else will be volunteers," said Keeling.

If you’d like more information on the Westside Women’s Resource Center or one of its other locations visit wrc-jax.com or call 904-696-9100.

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